I'll always read his Saturday column in the Guardian Sport section, and now he's releasing extracts from his autobiography
Whilst I'm quite sure that I'll grow tired of his tales of sex and drugs before long, I'm quite looking forward to reading this. Love him or hate him, he's obviously led a pretty interesting life up 'til this point
He has a nice grasp of language, this one
i saw him so stand up last week
he was FUCKING funny
He's releasing this tour on DVD too, I think
*drops hint to people in time for christmas*
Really?
I saw his last dvd and didn't think too much of it. I saw an episode of ponderland and it was ok
no wai?
i was planning on seeing him next time he toured, and i obviously failed
He's doing 3 nights of stand-up
at the Roundhouse but they've all sold out
I used to look forward to his columns.
They're starting to get a bit boring though.
i only read the iside page of the sport section
very funny.
I ADORE 'What Won't Happen This Week'
Sometimes, I cry tears of happy laughter at it.
its amazing
i prefer the "spotters guide" tho.
The Spotters Guide
for the NFL game was incredible. Mainly for the use of the word 'gatorade'.
./
i remember the days of his bbc radio 6!! show with matty morgs and 'cocky' trever locky, ah good times on a sunday morning spent with good friends.
I will deffinitely be buying his book though; that guardian passage read like its own little self contained bildungroman.And i imagine the rest of the book is replete with cultural referncing: noam chomsky anyone?
MATTHEW EAT YOUR FUDGE!
He presses the buttons
It was nay matt's fudge
it was trevor's.
Russ: "EAT YOUR FUDGE TREV"
Trev: "There isn't any"
Matt: "In a way Trev, isn't everything fudge."
shit
soz
his
6 music show just wasn't funny...
i used to look forawrd to your column
but its started getting bit boring now
i'm going to buy his autobiography
simply because it's called 'my booky wook'
or something
Podcast podcast podcast
It's the funniest thing EVER.
You seen this link to his Radio 6 show?
Here we go...
http://russellbrand.shhhmedia.com/podcasts/
Today's instalment
is about his heroin addiction, and in particular how he turned up to MTV on 12th September 2001 to present a live show on which Kylie Minogue was guesting.
Which is interesting, as my recollection is that MTV pulled all their programming from the day after 9/11 for the rest of the week and showed back to back maudlin videos instead.
Nah, it's 'the story'
isn't it? How he turned up dressed as a 'terrorist' or whatever the day afterwards. He got sacked a day later, didn't he?
It is that, yes
but it seems he's run several anecdotes together to form it: http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2209994,00.html
Is my despisal of this man an uncommon occurence then?
I've had to handle roughly 100 copies of his book so far this week and its single redeeming feature is the fact that if you changed the title a little bit it could pass as a Chewbacca autobiography...
Don't even get me started on his book about f**king West Ham...
his new show looks dreadful
oooh look I can do a fucking stupid voice and act like a complete goon who's high on the scent of the hairspray from my own elaborate birds nest.
Twat.
But he does write good.
He's obviously better in writing
because you can't see him prancing around like a fucking lunatic ruining his otherwise entertaining language grasp.
I hate Russell brand soooooooooooooooo much
He is soooooooooooooo not funny, he is a selfich cock.
His hair looks stupid. his book is called my booky wook which sums up why he is not funny in the fucking slightest. cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt.
nah
Way.
Booky wook. That is just irritating. Fact.
you either love him or hate him
and I fucking loathe him. So much so I could happily strangle him and watch the life drain out of his eyes. This may seem a tad strong, after all he's only *another* meaningless famous-for-nothing-in-particular celebrity, but he really, REALLY gets my goat. And is about as funny as herpes.
he's a great writer and stand-up
I even liked the Big Brother thing, though everything since that has been a bit shit.
I understand why people would hate him but surely you'd rather have someone who has obviously read a book presenting rubbish tv than some shit-for-brains moron?
I regard Brand
as a shit-for-brains moron. You know he went into MTV to present a show, THE DAY AFTER 9/11, dressed as Osama Bin Laden? You can't get more shit-for-brains than that.
The fact he has a vocabulary larger than the average bloke in the streets doesn't really impress me.
he was on drugs then
doesn't count.
I'm totally gonna use that
should I ever get tried in a court of law. "look, your honour, I'm gonna level with you... I know I've done all these terrible things, I won't for a second deny them... BUT, I was on drugs at the time, so... y'know... doesn't count."
you
could claim temporary insanity (depending on the crime i guess)?
in which case you'd be put on some rehabilitative course, rather than being put in prison.
lots of people use the excuse for stupid behaviour - 'oh yeh i was drunk' shouldnt be any different for drugs.
Are you kidding?
it does stand up. That's why addicts often get the offer of rehabilitation instead of prison.
I'll admit, in this instance,
I was being facetious. Just because he was 'on drugs' doesn't detract from the fact he's a massive cunt with shit-for-brains for doing it.
Besides, the best you could get is diminished responsibility, if it's a serious crime you're still fucked.
I'm
not sure. If you can 'prove' you were insane at the time of acting that crime, you would still be put onto some sort rehabilitative course.
Is all a matter of judgement. My older brother worked in a mental hospital - open access. A group of psychologists had to decide when it was felt that people who had committed certain crimes were 'ok' to be released into the public.
I'm pretty sure in this country we believe in rehabilitation of criminals no matter what the crime...and if we don't we might as well kill people who commit awful crimes (which is just judgement really, who the hell decides whether a crime is 'awful' or not) and show no remorse.
He didn't actually write it.
Hate to burst the bubble but a journalist spent six hours interviewing him and wrote the lot...getting paid £80k as a ghostwriter to do so.
Oh no, my bubble!
he
dictated it.
Who would win in a fight
Russell Brand or Jo Brand?
Jo definately.
She is funnier as well.
Jo, so easily
and whilst she's hardly a barrel of laughs (*lard?), she's still a damn sight funnier than Russell.
Giles Brandreth
would shit on both of them.
i love him
im gonna buy his book liek today......
I dont really want to read his book
I'd love to meet him though.
Why get so upperty about him dressing up in bad taste? I hear plenty other deliberately sick jokes about Diana, Fred West etc, and deceased people.
So he made a faux pas, theres no need to go overboard about it, everyone makes errors of judgement, and he, as we know doesnt censor himself so much.